today.nukz.net: Almanac March 27

Francis Russell O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) Writer, poet, art critic, and member of the New York School of poetry

Events

196 BC – Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
1309 – Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
1329 – Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1613 – The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
1809 – Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
1846 – Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
1851 – First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
1854 – Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
1871 – The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1881 – Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
1884 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
1886 – Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
1890 – A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
1910 – A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.
1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
1918 – Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
1941 – World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
1943 – World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands – In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war to the Axis Powers.
1948 – The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
1963 – Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
1964 – The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1976 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.
1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
1986 – A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
1990 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
1993 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
1993 – Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
2000 – A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
2002 – Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
2004 – HMS Scylla (F71), a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
2009 – Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
2009 – A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.

Births

972 – King Robert II of France (d. 1031)
1416 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (d. 1480)
1627 – Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716)
1676 – Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian nationalist (d. 1735)
1696 – Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (d. 1760)
1702 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (d. 1762)
1709 – William Flackton, English bookseller, publisher, amateur organist, viola player and composer (d. 1798)
1710 – Joseph Abaco, Belgian violoncellist and composer (d. 1805)
1712 – Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (d. 1779)
1714 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (d. 1795)
1730 – Thomas Tyrwhitt, English classical scholar (d. 1786)
1746 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (d. 1767)
1760 – Ishmail Spicer, American composer (d. 1832)
1765 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
1784 – Alexander Csoma de Korös, Hungarian philologist (d. 1842)
1785 – King Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)
1797 – Alfred de Vigny, French author (d. 1863)
1809 – Jean-Louis Beaudry, Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal (d. 1886)
1809 – Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French civic planner (d. 1891)
1810 – William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar (d. 1886)
1813 – Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator (d. 1888)
1817 – Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss biologist (d. 1891)
1845 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
1847 – Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
1851 – Vincent d'Indy, French composer and teacher (d. 1931)
1857 – Karl Pearson, English statistician (d. 1936)
1859 – George Giffen, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)
1860 – Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (d. 1924)
1863 – Sir Henry Royce, English automobile pioneer (d. 1933)
1868 – Patty Smith Hill, American educator (d. 1946)
1869 – James McNeill, Irish politician (d. 1938)
1871 – Piet Aalberse, Dutch politician (d. 1948)
1871 – Heinrich Mann, German writer (d. 1950)
1879 – Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
1883 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
1886 – Sergey Kirov, Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934)
1886 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (d. 1969)
1888 – Bouke Benenga, Dutch freestyle swimmer and water polo player (d. 1968)
1892 – Ferde Grofé, American composer (d. 1972)
1892 – Dorrit Weixler, German actress (d. 1916)
1893 – Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist (d. 1947)
1895 – Betty Schade, German-born American film actress (d. 1982)
1898 – Alma Tell, American stage and film actress (d. 1937)
1899 – Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)
1897 – Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist (d. 1958)
1901 – Carl Barks, American illustrator (d. 2000)
1901 – Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d. 1963)
1901 – Eisaku Sato, Japanese statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1975)
1901 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (d. 1971)
1902 – Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
1905 – Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)
1906 – Pee Wee Russell, American musician (d. 1969)
1909 – Golo Mann, German historian (d. 1994)
1909 – Ben Webster, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1973)
1912 – James Callaghan, British politician (d. 2005)
1913 – Theodor Dannecker, German SS officer (d. 1945)
1914 – Richard Denning, American actor (d. 1998)
1914 – Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter and novelist (d. 2009)
1915 – Robert Lockwood, Jr., American blues guitarist (d. 2006)
1917 – Cyrus Vance, American politician (d. 2002)
1920 – Robin Jacques, British illustrator (d. 1995)
1921 – Harold Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2000)
1921 – Fred Foy, American radio and television announcer (d. 2010)
1922 – Dick King-Smith English author (d. 2011)
1922 – Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003)
1923 – Endo Shusaku, Japanese author (d. 1996)
1923 – Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born poet
1924 – Sarah Vaughan, American singer (d. 1990)
1926 – Frank O'Hara, American Poet (d.1966)
1927 – Jean Beetz, Canadian professor and judge (d. 1991)
1927 – Anthony Lewis, American journalist and writer
1927 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
1930 – Bob den Uyl, Dutch writer (d. 1992)
1931 – David Janssen, American actor (d. 1980)
1935 – Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer
1935 – Julian Glover, British actor
1935 – Stanley Rother, American Catholic priest and missionary (d. 1981)
1937 – Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
1939 – Cale Yarborough, American race car driver
1940 – Janis Martin, American singer (d. 2007)
1940 – Austin Pendleton, American actor
1941 – Ivan Gašparovic, Slovakian politician
1942 – John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1942 – Michael York, English actor
1942 – Michael Jackson, English writer (d. 2007)
1944 – Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (d. 2008)
1946 – Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers)
1947 – Marc-Yvan Côté, Canadian politician
1947 – Brian Jones, British balloonist
1947 – Aad de Mos, Dutch football coach
1947 – Walt Mossberg, American journalist
1950 – Tony Banks, English musician (Genesis)
1950 – Petros Efthimiou, Greek politician
1950 – Lynn McGlothen, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1952 – Jan Albers, Dutch field hockey player
1952 – Maria Schneider, French actress (d. 2011)
1952 – Richard Séguin, Quebec singer and songwriter
1952 – Dana Stabenow, American author
1953 – Herman Ponsteen, Dutch track cyclist
1955 – Lefteris Pantazis, Greek singer
1956 – Leung Kwok Hung, Hong Kong activist
1956 – Thomas Wassberg, Swedish cross-country skier
1957 – Nick Hawkins, British politician
1957 – Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (d. 1997)
1957 – Kostas Vasilakakis, Greek footballer and football manager
1959 – Andrew Farriss, Australian musician (INXS)
1960 – Hans Pflügler, German footballer
1960 – Renato Russo, Brazilian singer-songwriter (d. 1996)
1961 – Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (B'z)
1961 – Tony Rominger, Swiss cyclist
1962 – Jann Arden, Canadian musician
1962 – Rob Hollink, Dutch professional poker player
1962 – John O'Farrell, British author and satirist
1963 – Charly Alberti, Argentinian musician
1963 – Randall Cunningham, American football player
1963 – Dave Koz, American saxophonist
1963 – Quentin Tarantino, American director, writer, and producer
1963 – Xuxa, Brazilian television personality
1964 – Glenn Carter, English actor and singer-songwriter
1964 – Kad Merad, French-Algerian actor
1966 – Paula Trickey, American actress
1966 – Haruto Umezawa, Japanese manga artist
1967 – David Bavaro, American football player
1967 – Talisa Soto, American actress
1967 – Kenta Kobashi, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 – Sandra Hess, Swiss-born actress and model
1969 – Kevin Corrigan, American actor
1969 – Stéphane Morin, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
1969 – Pauley Perrette, American actress, photographer, poet, writer
1969 – Victoria O'Keefe, British actress (d. 1990)
1970 – Derek Aucoin, Canadian baseball player
1970 – Kathalijne Buitenweg, Dutch politician
1970 – Brent Fitz, Canadian musician (Theory of a Deadman)
1970 – Brendan Hill, British drummer (Blues Traveler)
1970 – Princess Leila of Iran (d. 2001)
1970 – Mariah Carey, American pop singer-songwriter and actress
1970 – Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
1970 – Uwe Rosenberg, German board game designer (Agricola, Bohnanza)
1971 – David Coulthard, Scottish Formula One driver
1971 – Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
1972 – Charlie Haas, American professional wrestler
1972 – Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dutch footballer
1974 – Russ Haas, wrestler (d. 2001)
1974 – George Koumantarakis, Greek-South African footballer
1974 – Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
1975 – Fergie, American pop singer (The Black Eyed Peas)
1975 – Tom Goegebuer, Belgian weightlifter
1975 – Chakrit Yamnam, Thai film and television actor
1976 – Djamel Belmadi, Algerian footballer
1976 – Danny Fortson, American basketball player
1976 – Carl Ng, Hong Kong/British actor and model
1977 – Adrian Anca, Romanian footballer
1977 – Vitor Meira, Brazilian racing driver
1979 – Michael Cuddyer, American baseball player
1980 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian singer and songwriter
1981 – Carey Davis, American pro football player
1981 – Lin Jun Jie, Chinese singer
1981 – Terry McFlynn, Northern Irish footballer
1982 – Kurara Chibana, Japanese beauty pageant contestant
1982 – Iman Crosson, American actor, impressionist, and dancer
1983 – Yunus Içuz, Turkish footballer
1984 – Michaël Cordier, Belgian footballer
1984 – Laura Critchley, British singer/song writer
1984 – Ben Franks, New Zealander rugby player
1985 – Dario Baldauf, Austrian footballer
1985 – Stijn De Smet, Belgian footballer
1985 – Caroline Winberg, Swedish supermodel
1986 – Melissa Stern (Baby M), American custody case figure
1986 – SoCal Val, American professional wrestling valet
1986 – Manuel Neuer, German professional footballer
1986 – George Whitelock, New Zealand rugby player
1987 – Cláudio, Brazilian footballer
1987 – Chad Denny, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 – Buster Posey, American baseball player
1987 – Victor Vito, New Zealand rugby player
1988 – Brenda Song, American actress
1988 – Jessie J, British singer
1990 – Alessio Bugno, Italian footballer
1990 – Nicolas N'Koulou, Cameroonian footballer
1990 – Scott Selwood, Australian rules footballer
1992 – Pedro Obiang, Spanish-born Equatoguinean footballer

Deaths

710 – Rupert of Salzburg
973 – Herman, Duke of Saxony
1191 – Pope Clement III (b. 1130)
1350 – King Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1312)
1378 – Pope Gregory XI (b. 1336)
1462 – Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)
1482 – Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold; wife of Maximilian I (b. 1457)
1555 – William Hunter, Protestant martyr
1572 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (b. c. 1523)
1625 – King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland (b. 1566)
1635 – Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
1676 – Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier and diplomat (b. 1597)
1679 – Abraham Minjon, Dutch painter (b. 1640)
1697 – Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (b. 1603)
1757 – Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (b. 1717)
1770 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian artist (b. 1696)
1809 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (b. 1716)
1827 – François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer (b. 1747)
1836 – James Fannin, Texas revolutionary (b. 1804)
1843 – Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)
1849 – Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford (b. 1776)
1850 – Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer (b. 1797)
1864 – Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800)
1865 – Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786)
1873 – Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
1875 – Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803)
1878 – Sir George Gilbert Scott, English architect (b. 1811)
1879 – Prince Waldemar of Prussia, son of Emperor Frederick III (b. 1868)
1889 – John Bright, English statesman (b. 1811)
1897 – Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (b. 1826)
1898 – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual (b. 1817)
1910 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz (b. 1835)
1918 – Henry Adams, American historian (b. 1838)
1923 – Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842)
1924 – Walter Parratt, English composer (b. 1841)
1926 – Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
1927 – Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
1931 – Arnold Bennett, British novelist (b. 1867)
1934 – Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
1940 – Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
1952 – Kiichiro Toyoda, Japan industrialist (b. 1894)
1965 – Dirk Lotsy, Dutch footballer (b. 1882)
1967 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
1967 – Jim Thompson, American designer (disappeared) (b. 1906)
1968 – Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1934)
1972 – Sharkey Bonano, American musician (b. 1904)
1972 – M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (b. 1898)
1977 – A. P. Hamann, American politician (b. 1909)
1977 – Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)
1977 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch Aviator (b. 1927)
1978 – Nat Bailey, Canadian restaurateur (b. 1902)
1981 – Olle Björklund, Swedish actor and news presenter (b. 1916)
1981 – Mao Dun, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
1982 – Betty Schade, German-born American actress (b. 1895)
1988 – Renato Salvatori, Italian actor (b. 1934)
1989 – May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
1989 – Jack Starrett, American actor and film director (b. 1936)
1991 – Ralph Bates, British actor (b. 1940)
1991 – Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
1992 – Easley Blackwood, American bridge player (b. 1903)
1993 – Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1931)
1993 – Paul László, Hungarian interior designer and architect (b. 1900)
1995 – René Allio, French film director (b. 1924)
1996 – Howard Wyeth, American drummer and pianist (b. 1944)
1998 – David McClelland, American psychologist (b. 1917)
1998 – Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer (b. 1909)
2000 – Ian Dury, English musician (b. 1942)
2002 – Milton Berle, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
2002 – Dudley Moore, British actor (b. 1935)
2002 – Billy Wilder, American director (b. 1906)
2003 – Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (b. 1927)
2003 – Ricardo Munguía, Salvadoran aid worker (b. 1960)
2003 – Paul Zindel, American writer (b. 1936)
2004 – Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer (b. 1984)
2005 – Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian prominent actor (b. 1949)
2005 – Wilfred Bigelow, Canadian heart surgeon (b. 1913)
2005 – Bob Casey, American baseball announcer (b. 1925)
2005 – Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (b. 1921)
2006 – Dan Curtis, American television producer and director (b. 1928)
2006 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b. 1925)
2006 – Stanislaw Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
2006 – Ruari McLean, British typographer (b. 1917)
2006 – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan (b. 1924)
2007 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)
2008 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport's FIA (b. 1921)
2008 – George Pruteanu, Romanian literary critic and politician (b. 1947)
2009 – Jack Dreyfus, American businessman (b. 1913)
2010 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian grandmaster (b. 1921)
2011 – Farley Granger, American actor (b. 1925)